Effective IT security is in high demand, and a large variety of industries such as banking, government, education, health care and the military view biometrics solutions as a key part of the solution.

The influx of digital identity fraud is driving the adoption of more secure identity verification methods, like the use of biometric authentication tools. These solutions are much more capable of ...

Biometric security devices — which authenticate a person’s identity on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a fingerprint — have been available in one form or another for 30 years. But ...

Although it wasn't called biometrics at the time, a rudimentary form of the technology emerged in 1901 when Scotland Yard adopted fingerprint classification to identify criminal suspects. The ...

As biometric tools become common in consumer, workplace and public settings, it’s important to understand both what these systems can do and their limits and risks.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Ayanna Pressley recently introduced legislation that would ban government agencies from using facial recognition technology, claiming that it ...

When many of us think of biometrics, we think of fingerprints or facial recognition systems that analyze faces from photos or videos and match them to sets of previously acquired data. However, ...

The results are in. And as it turns out, despite the naysayers, Americans are happy about the use of biometric security measures at airports. The U.S. Travel Association, in conjunction with Ipsos, ...

Homeland security applications, especially those used in our nation’s border control, provide an ideal example of how to implement biometrics in a way that builds and maintains the public’s support ...

With enterprises constantly on the lookout for better security, biometrics is increasingly seen as a better alternative for authenticating digital identities than outdated authentication methods such ...